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April 2025

Links and short notes, 2025-04-23
Impossible sci-fi nonsense, the shadow of the Great War, heliocentrism, the bottom-up abundance agenda, institutional sclerosis, and more
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Jason Crawford
The Flywheel
Chapter 6 of The Techno-Humanist Manifesto
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Jason Crawford
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Announcing Progress Conference 2025
A four-day event to connect people in the progress movement: Berkeley Oct 16-19
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Heike Larson
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We should install a thermostat on the Earth
Chapter 5 (“Solutionism”), part 3 of The Techno-Humanist Manifesto
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Jason Crawford
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March 2025

How much does it cost to back up solar with batteries?
This turns out to be a tricky question. Here's my current, partial understanding
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Jason Crawford
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Links and short notes, 2025-03-18
The 150-year history of d/acc, a $120M progress fund, fertility on demand, 19th-century kids' sci-fi, the real lesson of Cassandra’s curse, giving the…
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Jason Crawford
We’re hiring a developmental editor
Come work with our brilliant fellows this summer/fall!
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Emma McAleavy
Links and short notes, 2025-03-10
A visible sonic boom, AI in SaaS, progress on permitting reform, fewer tornado deaths, the closing of the frontier, Rousseau and Kant vs. the Age of…
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Jason Crawford
Solutionism, part 2
Chapter 5 of The Techno-Humanist Manifesto
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Jason Crawford
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Links and short notes, 2025-03-03
Progress studies in university and high school, a positive supply shock for truth, the hinge of history, Dean Ball on AI liability, Kevin Kelly on the…
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Jason Crawford

February 2025

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